Acid Rain

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Term Paper Title	Acid Rain
# of Words	1433
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Acid Rain

Acid Rain

   Acid rain is polluted rain.  The pollutants go up to the atmosphere and when
it rains it brings the pollution down with it.  Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen
oxide are the gases that form the acid rain.  When these gases mix with moisture
it can make rain, snow, hail, or even fog.  The scientific term for acid rain is
acid deposition which means when the acid is taken from the air and is deposited
on the earth. Major industries, coal burning factories, power plants and
automoble engines are the main sources of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide
which caues acid rain. Volcaneoes and forest fires also causes sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxide.  Some of the many problems that come from acid rain is the
killing of of many plants and underwater life in thousands of lakes and streams
around the world.  It strips forest soils of nutrients and damages farm crops.
Acid rain can also corrode stone buildings, bridges, and priceless monuments.
Acid rain can also be harmful to humans because acid rain kills the crops and
fish we eat, ruins homes, and the acid can release lead in the pipes and the
lead could go into our drinking water. It is hard to determine where acid rain
may fall next, because the wind from a pollueted area could carry pollution to
another area and the acid rain could fall there.  The regions effected more by
acid rain is large parts of eastern North America, Scandinavia, and central
Europe.  In alot of places acid rain isn't a probelm because some soils can
neutralize the acid and it doesn't effect the crops.  Areas more sensitive to
acid rain is in the western United States most of Washington all of Oregon,
sectons of California and most of Idaho.  Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and a
large section of north east Canada. The soil in these places can not neutralize
acid rain deposits, then the nutrients are stripped which means the crops in
those places may not survive.  The Black forest is a mountainous region in
Baden-Wurttemberg, in southwestern Germany.  The valleys are fertile and make
good pasture land as well as providing good soil vineyards.  No  forest region
is showing serious effects of acid rain.  Many trees are dying, the forest lost
masses of needles, leaving them with sparse, scruffing crowns.  Their major
industries are Lumbering wood, manufacturing toys and cuckoo clocks.  Winter
sports and mineral springs attract tourists.
     Acid rain can damage and ruin soils by stripping the soils nutrients.
But some soils can ne...

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